The Rust Ecosystem

In this section, we're going to walk through a lot of the Rust ecosystem to help you get a feel for how Rust projects are structured, the tooling that is available, and key differences from C++.

In this section, we'll be covering:

• A quick introduction to the Rust toolchain and swiss-army knife Cargo.
• Some basic Rust syntax and how it differs from C++.
• Rust's safety guarantees and what they mean, including:
  • The borrow checker
  • Lifetimes
  • Reference counting
  • Data-race protection
  • Opt-in vs opt-out safety
• Program layout with workspaces, crates, programs and libraries
• Unit testing
• Dependency Management
• Benchmarking